Wisconsin or WashU?

wolrab
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:56:41 +0000

My mistake – that’s 40,000+ students. It’s still a huge campus with a helluva lot of people. I stand by my statement that it is easy to get lost. Some students from small town, WI, are thrilled to finally be anonymous. Others are completely overwhelmed. And the grad students impact very little on the life of the typical undergrad, if you ask me. My sense of undergrad life is that it’s pretty anti-intellectual – for most students. You have to look hard to find other undergrads who value scholarship and being truly scholarly, and who aren’t interested in getting drunk Thursday through Saturday nights. Sadly, the reputation of the U.W. as a party school is well deserved. The administration has had little success in curbing the enthusiasm.